Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Conscience

• OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Law, Deities, Made

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.151, 谷月社

• EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Religious, Nuts, Affair

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.60, 谷月社

• PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Tears, Plus, Reasonable

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.171, 谷月社

• RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Water, Imagination, Novelists

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.187, 谷月社

• POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pockets, Alive, Sin

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.166, 谷月社

• PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who [was] not permitted to sing psalms through his nose [in Europe], followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Father, Taken, Europe

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.182, University of Georgia Press

• Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Debtors, Owing A Debt, Forgetful

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.38, Courier Corporation

• I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fear, Heart, Atheism

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz (1998). “A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography”, p.177, Univ. of Tennessee Press

• Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Gentleman, Pockets, Philanthropy

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.181, University of Georgia Press

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